Horizon - Digital Workspace

By -Roch Norwa

Using Horizon 8 REST API for audit and reporting

Posted on 2023-03-28
Posted in Horizon
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When talking about audit and reporting in Horizon 8 first thing that comes up is Event Database obviously. This SQL Server based data repo stores massive amount of interesting information, including but not limited to all the users actions related to their virtual desktops and apps. Every time a new session is connected, or disconnected,

By -Roch Norwa

Translating and customising landing page and HTML Access Portal in Horizon 8

Posted on 2023-01-09
Posted in Horizon

Horizon HTML Access portal is available in limited number of languages but thankfully it can be easily translated and customised to your local needs. For me, working with customers around all Europe who speak dozens of languages with their own diacritical marks this is a must have tweak! There are also several other customisation options

By -Roch Norwa

Automating Let’s Encrypt certificates lifecycle for Unified Access Gateway’s Horizon and Workspace ONE services

Posted on 2022-10-19
Posted in Horizon

The UAG is very important part of Workspace ONE and Horizon platforms, delivering secure access to services like virtual apps and desktops (including Horizon 8 and Horizon Cloud on Azure), Content Gateway, Tunnel and Secure Email Gateway. If you deploy Unified Access Gateway in production, you probably put it behind a virtual IP (VIP) that

By -Roch Norwa

Automating Let’s Encrypt cerificates lifecycle for Unified Access Gateway, Horizon and Workspace One services

Posted on 2022-06-29
Posted in Horizon

The UAG is very important part of Workspace One platform, delivering secure access to services like Horizon (including Horizon Cloud on Azure and AWS), Content Gateway, Tunnel and recently even Secure Email Gateway. If you deploy Unified Access Gateway in production, you probably put it behind a virtual IP (VIP) that will load balance the

By -MIke Gruner

Horizon – Brokering

Posted on 2021-10-29
Posted in Horizon, Horizon Cloud

You use VMware Horizon and wants to expand to a high availability (HA) architecture or you think about Horizon and wants to start with the planning and design phase. Great! You are on the right way because planning and design is key! In case of an Multi-site architecture you have to understand the differences between

By -MIke Gruner

Horizon Golden Master – Best practice

Posted on 2021-10-28
Posted in Horizon

In current virtual desktop environments the direction went since a couple of month more and more in the direction of non-persistent systems. That mean, you get every time a blank Windows 10 machine for instance. Why that is the way to go? If you deploy a Windows machine including the applications and profile data you

By -MIke Gruner

App Volumes – Prepare provisioning machine / VM

Posted on 2021-10-26
Posted in App Volumes, Horizon, Horizon Cloud

If you use the VMware App Volumes for your application packing and deployment, then it´s very important to prepare the packing machine for the applications, the App Stacks in the right way. Very important things here are OS updates, installed applications and dependencies. Let us take a look at the preparation. First step is to

By -MIke Gruner

App Volumes – Microsoft restriction an example

Posted on 2021-10-19
Posted in App Volumes, Horizon

Recently I was involved in a project for best practices regarding VMware App Volumes and how to virtualize applications and handle it. Well, App Volumes is a great solution if it comes to customizing a stateless virtual desktop system like Windows 10. You can do a lot like switching application packages which are assigned to

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